Bug 201226

Summary: error message prints garbage characters
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Daniel Lipsitt <danlipsitt>
Component: quotaAssignee: Steve Dickson <steved>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 4.0CC: mcermak
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0289 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Daniel Lipsitt 2006-08-03 17:45:55 UTC 
An error message from the quota command includes junk characters: (I've changed
the hostname)

quota: ñï       8       h¦ù¿òðï ¸¦ù¿ðï  0]: error while getting quota from
myhost:/export/home for 8230: Connection refused
$ quota
quota: ñ_8qXóê¿òð_¨óê¿ð_0]: error while getting quota from myhost:/export/home
for 8230: Connection refused

As you can see, the junk varies between invocations. Here is an escaped version
of the message as rendered by cat:

$ quota 2>&1 | cat -v
quota: M-q_u    8qu     XM-^PM-kM-?M-rM-I^D^HM-p_u     
^XM-^A^E^HM-(M-^PM-kM-?M-^@M-E^D^HM-p_u 0]M-^C: error while getting quota from
myhost:/export/home for 8230: Connection refused
Comment 1 Amit Gud 2006-08-05 15:30:49 UTC 
Created attachment 133688 [details]
fix1

Erroneous programming. A variable declared conditionally was being used
unconditionally and effectively without initialization. Probably programmer got
confused with the variables 'name' and 'progname'. /me sympathizes.

Attached patch should take care of it.
Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2006-11-02 02:08:18 UTC 
fixed in quota-3.12-6.el4
fixed in quota-3.13-1.2.3.2.el5
fixed in quota-3.13-1.2.3.2.fc6
fixed in quota-3.13-1.2.3.1.fc7
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2006-11-02 02:20:17 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-08 00:17:36 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0289.html